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or you can upload a flat RAW, that will work too

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Chloris Hathor wrote: It seems like people are selling their regions for much less than what it costs to purchase a region from Linden Lab. The forums seem to indicate that people are selling their full regions for around $300, yet Linden Lab charges $1000 to buy a full region. I wonder why such a difference in pricing? Good question Chloris! First thing to understand is the value of the tier date. That is where most of the value is when you purchase an existing sim. When you buy a sim retail it has the first month of tier included, so your actual cost for the sim is $705 plus the $295 tier = $1000 When you buy a transfer sim you need to find out how many days of tier will come with the sim. Each day is worth roughly $10. So a sim that sells for $300 with 30 days tier remaining is basically free, you are just paying for the unused tier. These days the market for sims has been a buyers market. There are very many more sellers than buyers. The result is if you can get anything for your sim at all, be greatful. I see sims trading for $125 - $250 all month long. YES the SELLER DOES PAY THE $100 TRANSFER FEE. There is no way around that, and it is included in the price. So if you sell your sim for $125 you end up with $25 after the transfer fee. Might be enough for a stick of gum. Good luck! Lizard Howl Segarra Estates Owner PS I have plenty of tips on buying and selling sims in my blog, you might want to take a peak.

here is the forumula - buy some land rent it out for more than it costs you repeat the process. You can do this with Mainland or Estate land. The key is keeping things in profit. 1. Mainland rentals. Mainland rentals are probably the easiest to start with, especially with Mainland prices being dirt cheap. If you have a Premium Account your first 512sqm of tier is included. So buy a 512sqm of land and rent it out for whatever you can get for it. 200L/wk, 225L/wk, 250L/wk - it really doesn't matter. Those are all good rental rates, and whatever you get it is basically 100% profit for you. Then you can take those profits and expand by buying more land and renting it out. 2. Estates. With Estates it is a little bit different because you are on the hook for a whole island at a time. An island (full prim sim) costs $295 USD per month. There are different ways to rent it out for a profit, but what most people do is cut the island into smaller parcels. The closer to 100% occupancy you are, the more money you will make. Be careful. If you have too many vacancies you can lose money on your island! There are always going to be people who sell land for below market rates - either because they got a better deal from Linden Labs, or they are just providing land to their friends, or whatever. That doesn't mean you can't make money as a Second Life landlord. The example I like to give is this - does Walmart charge less for things than the corner store? Yes. But, how many corner stores are still in business? Tons. They charge more for the same things, yet they stay in business and turn a good profit. Hope that helps! Lizard

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reposted from my blog: There has been a lot speculation recently about what I call the elephants in the room. Specifically, a couple of the largest Estate Owners have been renting out sims for well below cost. By cost, I'm referring to the current Linden Lab price of $295 USD per month for a full sim, and $125 USD per month for a homestead region. As an established (or growing) Estate it can be difficult, if not impossible, to compete with cut rate prices. If all or part of your business is renting out sims you could be in real trouble. What's an Estate owner to do? Well, the first thing you need to do, if you haven't done it already, is shift your focus out of full regions! Create parceled sims, themed sims, zoned sims: buy by the pie and sell by the slice! If you need to bring in $295 per month just to break even, and the elephants are flooding the market with sims at $275, you're not going to be renting out a bunch of full sims. Period. Concentrate on your strengths. Customers love the personal touch, smaller parcels, and great service. Give them what they love! If you are brand new to the Second Life land game these lower prices offer an opportunity. You can rent a sim for below cost, re-rent it for cost, and still make a profit! The downside is this: when you sublease sims you take on additional risks. If something happens to the Estate Owner, or you have a falling out with them for whatever reason, you could lose your entire business. You have to consider the risks, weigh them out, and make your choices. At the end of the day, there are only a handful of things an Estate Owner can do that an Estate Manager can't. They can buy and sell transfer sims, upload and download RAWs, and get faster response from Linden Lab for service concerns. That's about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not encouraging anyone to sublease sims from the cut-rate Estates, but business is business. For me, at this point in my business, subleasing sims doesn't make any sense. Does it make sense to you, at this point in your business? Consider the question carefully, and decide what makes the most sense for you, your customers, and your business. If you are willing to give up the control of being an Estate Owner, subleasing sims can be very profitable. If you decide to do it, grow slowly and carefully. Identify an Estate with a good reputation, and start by renting a single sim. See how quickly they respond if you need help. See if their tier systems are reliable and dependable. After a few weeks, if everything is going well, go ahead and expand. If you don't want to take on the additional risk, concentrate on your strengths as an Estate Owner. Develop a niche and focus on it. Above all else, take very good care of your core customers. The elephants ain't leaving the room folks. Ride them if you can, or stay out of their way so you don't get stomped! Have fun, and good luck! Lizard Howl Segarra Estates Owner

If they made a mistake and cleared your land 12 hours early, the only thing they could do is let you get your land back, which they offered to do. This sounds to me like a whole bunch of fuss about nothing.

MoiselleErin Teardrop wrote: I was out on what i guess is mainland - anyways happened upon a place that is like 1500 square meters, 380 prims, L$380 a week.... Seems like "too good to be true" especially since LL doesn't even go that cheap... Hi MoiselleErin - It is good to be cautious, especially if you need to join a group, but in this case I think you are OK. Mainland is cheap. For a full sim the tier rate is $195 US per month. If you rented out a whole sim at 1L/prim/wk you would make about $56 US per month in profit. There are plenty of landlords in SL (myself included) who would love to make that much per sim! So to answer your question, no that's not a "too good to be true" price. If it's a good rate for you, and you can get in touch with the landlord, go ahead and rent it. It should be a profitable deal for the landlord also. Lizard Howl Segarra Estates Owner

Destiny Eberdene wrote: I have been playing SL now since 2008. I have rented many different sized land from many different companies. I now work for a "quite respectable" land company, not tootin my own horn or anything, but seeing how alot of our tenants are leaving for "lower prices" elsewhere, only to find out they are "introductory rates" and increase after the first few weeks. Those tenants also find out that when they are in need of customer support, there is none to be found, or you wait for days, sometimes a week or more, for help with issues. Those companies, are basically killing the other "decent" land companies because they have "grandfathered sim prices" from way back in the very begining. I not only speak for myself, but many other people within SL, that this sort of thing is very unfair... Hi Destiny, Thanks for starting this thread! Without a doubt, so called "grandfathered" pricing is the proverbial Elephant In the Room when it comes to Second Life land. Anyone with a calculator and basic math skills can see that a handful of companies are charging well below retail rates for sims. The "cover story" is that the sims are Grandfathered. For this to be true, that means these sims would have been on the grid since June 2009 or earlier. Ref: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Land-and-Sea-General/Today-is-your-last-chance-to-buy-Grandfathered-Homesteads/ba-p/646048 It is mighty suspicious how these Grandfathered sims seem to multiply every week, and are offered in apparently endless supply by "you know who" and "the other guys" too. Be that as it may, the only solution to this issue is for Linden Lab to flatten the prices across the board, either by bringing all sims up to the current retail price, or by dropping the price on all sims back to the Grandfathered price. Is it ever going to happen? No. Is it fair? No, not really. On the other hand, all large companies offer a discount for their best customers, why should Linden Lab be any different? I'm afraid you are right, the inevitible conclusion is that one day there will be no Estate Owners except for the huge Estates, which in turn will continue to drive customers out of Second Life. It's a real shame that the powers that be at Linden Lab don't see what is plain to you and me. Lizard Howl Segarra Estates Owner

NoName Quandry wrote: Actually... the much bigger issue is the lack of transparency within SL in regards to land pricing. There are hidden 'deals' made all the time allowing some "big" land owners to get below market rates. As examples of what I'm talking about: most think you have to pay premium membership fees to own private SIMs, LL doesn't tell you you do not - and I'm talking about buying these private SIMs from LL not the folks buying them from the private land owners. There's also a tier level called "extended support" above concierge level... which pays a lower rate both to buy SIMs in bulk and the tier to LL on these SIMs. Again you won't find information on either of these two things anywhere in LL. If you do it's well hidden and I'd love to see it. Even in calling live support they deny it exists, but clearly in talking to individuals confidentially within SL these "deals" are there. So to answer the post's original point, no, there's not fairness within SL and things aren't equal. It's the same as the "real world" when it comes to business and money, cut-throat, unequal, and not fair. Big fish will always try to eat the little ones and become the only fish swimming in the pond. I'll reply to the OP shortly, but first to respond to NoName: Extended Support is not what you think, nor is it hidden. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Accounts-overview/ta-p/700019#extended Scroll about mid-way down the page and you will see it. Anyone can qualify for Extended Support. You need to have a tier bill of $5,000 USD per month or more. In exchange, you get faster service from LL. ie: Extended Support. There is nothing mystical or sneaky about it. "In addition to existing Concierge benefits, extended support membership includes: Accelerated ticket response — 24 hour response and average 48 hour resolution for most issues. Discounted island (Private Region) rental." The "discounted island rental" that they mention has nothing to do with TIER. It is referring to if you rent an island from LL for a day, which no one ever does. Lizard Howl Segarra Estates Owner

what you want to do is called "Increase Credit" Log into SecondLife.com look for the Linden Exchange menu on the left click Manage then click Increase Credit

Monti Messmer wrote: No chance to copy your whole inventory over to opensim. Full perm items like prim builds can be exported then imported, notecards, textures... but thats only a little part of your inventory. Monti While an item with "Full Permissions" in Second Life *can* be imported into other grids, the polite thing to do is to contact the object creator first. Most of them will allow you to export their items, some of them won't. Lizard

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Axel Hurricane wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies, they have been enlightening to say the least! The reason why I'm trying to gain this type of land, is for a wedding. I will need this amount of land only temporary, which is why I first mentioned 'rent'. I've another question for you knowledgeable ladies and gents... I've been told that homestead sims are now able to raise their limit past the 20 avatar limit, if you own the sim. Is this correct information? This would cure ALL of my worries if so...I've looked on the wiki and could not find that my prior knowledge had changed. Nope, not correct. I just tested it on one of my Homesteads. You can click the arrow for Agent Limit all the way up to 100, but when you click Apply it resets down to 20. L.H.

This is the Land forum. Your post should go here instead: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/bd-p/Merchants

Hi seabird. From your post its not entirely clear but I will try to help. If you log into secondlife.com, to your dashboard, on the left hand side of the page you will see something that says: Linden Exchange: You currently have L$ and then a number. That number is the number of Linden dollars you have, and it should match what you see in your viewer when you log in. What can you do with this balance? You can spend it in Second Life, or you can cash it out. How do you cash it out? First you have to convert it into USD. You do this by clicking Manage then Sell Ls. Once you have sold your Lindens you will have a USD balance. To cash out via PayPal click Manage then Process Credit. Linden Lab takes $1 processing fee. So if you want to end up with $100 in your PayPal account you have to enter $101 for your cash out. Good luck! Lizard

JeanneAnne wrote: Is it time for a reality check? There is no "land" in SL .. All is merely a cartoon your computer throws onto a two dimensional monitor by processing binary code sent over the internet from a server LL leases in Cali or Texas somewhere. You "own" nothing .. not the code, not the server its stored on, not the infrastructure its transmitted over. The cartoon you pretend is "land" doesnt even belong to you. You pay LL "tier" in order to be able to claim that its "yours." So long as you pay for the cartoon LL will probably allow you to maintain your illusions ~after all, all they care about is taking your $$~ yet youre allowed the cartoon entirely at the whim of the corporation. Someone could accuse you of being underage & ~poof~ there goes access to "your" account. LL doesnt even need a reason to ban you. They could make a mistake, or ban you on a whim, or go bankrupt & have their assets repossessed by creditors .. and you'd have absolutely no recourse. All these pretty cartoons, the toy economy, everything .. is an illusion. It's a game. A role play. None of it is real. Actually, you're more "secure" "living" on virtual "land" for free. That way: nothing invested nothing lost. Jeanne The argument that SL land isnt real, while its a valid argument, does have its limits. The bottom line is the Second Life economy is just as real, and just as fake, as any other given world economy. What props up the US dollar for example? Want a real reality check Jeanne? The answer is nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. What props up the so called Real World's real estate markets? Also nothing. You can argue against the "reality" of this, that, or the other thing all you want. In the meantime I'm cashing out my "fake" SL currency, turning it into "real" USD, and paying my bills with it. Thanks for stirring up the pot, someone has to! Lizard

Rival Destiny wrote: Amethyst Jetaime wrote: If you need to accommodate more than 20 avatars at a time, you will need to get more than half a sim. Full sims are set for 40 people as the default and to push that up, would cause lag unless the sim was fairly empty of builds. You can't expect to have half a sim and use more than half of the sims resources as that is not fair to the other people on the sim who pay the same amount of money as you do in proportion to their lot size yet wouldn't have full use of all the proportionate resources at any given time, including prims, server time and population. There is no way to allot prims to individual lots either. A sim owner can only use a factor for ALL lots on a sim to reduce or increase the number of prims that are allowed to be rezzed. For instance, double prim lots are achieved by sinking taking half the sims square meters and sinking them under water or using it for wasteland. Then the estate owner changes the factor to 2 to allow twice the prim usage. The half sim that is used as waste land or water is not sold or rented and remains the property of the estate owner with prim rezzing turned off. The solution for you would be to get a full sim and sublease or partner with someone who only needs low traffic and does not require a lot of server time. Remember that the more people that are on a sim in your location the more server time you will use due to rendering those avatars and all the scripted objects they wear. Probably a builder looking for a private sandbox where they need a lot of prims but will only need to be able to have a few people there at any given time would be a good match. Actually, there is a way to do this quite easily. When I had my land business, there were a few tenants over the years that wanted more prims than the parcel allowed. If on the same sim, you can allocate the use of prims to your individual tenants. So for example, if you have 2 tenants that each want a 1024 but one wants double the prims and the other needs only half, you can allocate the prims using a rental box to each of the tenants accordingly. The parcels must be in the same sim to do this of course but is quite easy to do. hope this helps. This thread is full of so much misinformation I'm not sure where to begin. 1. Every prim must have some land associated with it. 2. An Estate Owner can play with the sim settings to make it appear as if a given parcel can support more prims. 3. A full sim can not support more than 15,000 prims total. 4. For the Original Poster's request to work, the Estate Owner would have to find tenants for the rest of the sim who wanted extra prims. 5. The suggestion above, that an Estate Owner can "easily" assign prims willy-nilly is false. The only way that will work is if you use rental boxes that count prims, and all the parcels in question are owned by the same land group. You could then charge one 1/4 sim tenant for 937 prims, and charge another for, say, 5000 prims. But there is nothing actually limiting the first tenant from rezzing more than her "assigned" number of prims. Anyway. If the OP finds someone willing to rent land this way, good for her! Lizard